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Chapter 467 A Strange Thing
It has to be said that for thousands of years, wells have been inseparable from people's lives, so there are too many stories and legends related to wells.

As a physiognomist, as far as Zuo Yang knows, a large part of these legends are chilling supernatural stories, some may be false stories fabricated by the people, and some are based on historical evidence real story.

Of course, the protagonists of these supernatural legends are not the wells themselves, but the people who died in the wells.

Some committed suicide by throwing themselves into the well, some were pushed into the well and drowned, and some were killed and then thrown into the well to hide the corpse... In short, the well has always been the most innocent in these supernatural legends, and the real cause of these supernatural events , is the wronged soul left in the world after death.

There are so many stories like this, Zuo Yang just opened up his brain a little bit, and he was able to make up many different versions at once.

But the brain hole is just a brain hole after all, and it cannot be taken seriously.

Now his main task is to solve the problem of the "chi" as soon as possible, and the cracking of the concrete floor has no direct relationship with this task for the time being. Now, he has no way to forcibly link these things together.

Besides.

Regarding the cracking of the cement floor, although Zuo Yang basically ruled out the possibility of cutting corners and crustal movement, he is not a high-achieving student who graduated from a civil engineering school of a certain university after all, and his judgment on this phenomenon is still not so comprehensive. Perhaps it may be It is caused by other reasons, such as the temperature difference, the topography, the foundation collapse, etc... Who knows, anyway, in this world, even if you were walking on a pedestrian crossing in the downtown area last second On the other hand, it is also possible to fall into a black hole that suddenly collapsed on the ground inexplicably in the next second. Isn't there always such a report in the news?
"What's the matter, brother, it doesn't have anything to do with the old well, does it?"

Seeing Zuo Yang's pensive look, Bu Ya looked at him anxiously and asked.

"I do not know either."

Zuo Yang shook his head, stood up from the ground, and said with a smile, "Let's go, let's go to another place and talk about this matter later."

"Oh……"

Hearing what Zuo Yang said, Bu Ya naturally didn't dare to ask any more questions, so he had to take him for a stroll around another place, of course, taking their old courtyard as the center.

After walking around for a while, Zuo Yang basically had a general understanding of the environment around Liu's old courtyard.

This place is located at the easternmost end of the village, which belongs to the most marginal place, and has a certain distance from the houses of other villagers. It is precisely because of this that Bu Ya's father was able to build such a small square nearby. Otherwise, many of the villagers’ houses are vacant. As long as someone demolishes them, they will be worth more immediately. It’s not so easy to rest.

On the east side of Liu's old courtyard, there is a big dirt bag about the size of a basketball court, which is only about a dozen meters away from the old Liu's courtyard.

Cypress trees and locust trees are growing on this big land parcel, and it is very lush and lush. In this small forest, you can hear melodious and chaotic birdsong from time to time. Zuo Yang picked up a stone and smashed it in. After I tried it, I immediately startled a lot of flying birds, and by the way, I also startled a squirrel hiding in a tree and taking a nap.

It is worthy of being an inaccessible country, and such a scene cannot be seen in the city.

"Hey, big brother, when I was young, I caught a squirrel in this small forest. After raising it for a few days, my grandpa released it for me. I even bet against my grandpa for several days. Woolen cloth."

Bu Ya continued to play the role of a qualified tour guide, scratched the back of his head and said, "Oh, by the way, there are some wild cats in this forest. In fact, most of them are raised by people in the village. You know, there are dogs in the village. Raising cats is basically free-range. As long as you lock the door for a period of time, you basically don’t care about it. Later, people in the village moved to the city. These cats and dogs are always unable to be taken away. Slowly Those who stay in the village will become wild cats and dogs."

"Later, there were fewer and fewer people in the village. Those wild dogs were fine for guarding the house, but they couldn't get enough to eat without people watching them, and they ran away slowly. There were only these wild cats, and they were considered unattended. They can always catch some small animals such as voles, sparrows, and toads, and sometimes they can even catch wild game such as hares.

"Then, does this big bag have any background?"

Zuo Yang nodded, and then asked tentatively.

Although the appearance of this big earth bag looks a bit like a mausoleum, and the scale must be at least the scale that a powerful official with power over the government and the public is eligible to build, but the feng shui of this place can only be regarded as very general, and it is really not suitable for spending money. Such a big price to build a mausoleum.

Therefore, he just asked this casually, and didn't expect Bu Ya to tell any special information.

really.

"It doesn't have any background, I remember hearing from my grandfather that this big soil bag seems to be in the era when agricultural cooperatives were popular. When the village organized villagers to dig reservoirs, the dug out soil had no place to pile up. , and later the village organized tree planting, and everyone planted some cypress and locust trees that are easy to feed, and this has become what it is now."

Bu Ya introduced with a smile.

"Oh...then it's all right, let's go back."

Zuo Yang responded again, and stopped paying attention to the big soil bag, turned his head and walked towards the old yard of Buya's house.

While walking, he was still thinking about the matter of "魑". Now that the surrounding terrain is almost understood, it is time to make a good preparation for what is about to happen.

Through the communication with that "魑" before, he can see that this "魑" is not too deep in heart and morality, and he is a little impatient, so he thinks that this guy is more likely to appear tonight Some, and he also hopes that this guy will come tonight, so that he can solve this matter as soon as possible without spending too much time and energy here.

However, there is one more problem...

He was still thinking whether to kill this "chi" directly, or to catch it first and find a way to subdue it and then raise it. This is definitely a problem.

Because now he is still not sure whether it is more beneficial for him to exterminate this "drill" or to subdue it.

But it is obviously easier to destroy it, and it can prevent future troubles forever, and if it is tamed...for the time being, he still doesn't know what kind of animal this "drill" is. You must know that some animals are impossible to tame. Although "魑" is a combination of human ghosts and animals, it still retains some characteristics of animals themselves.

What's more, because of the combination of human ghosts and animals, the IQ and EQ of "魑" are comparable to those of humans... This makes the matter of "taming" even more difficult.

Because animals are very simple, once they are tamed, they are tamed, but human beings are a very complex advanced animal. The human heart has been unpredictable since ancient times. The taming you think may be just a stopgap measure...

"Wait a moment!"

Thinking of this, Zuo Yang suddenly remembered another detail.

Yes, "Chi" is a combination of human ghosts and animals, and this "Chi" is just a baby, so it is very likely that it took shape only recently.

And there are many animals here, but the ghosts of people only appear after people die, so...

While thinking this way, Zuo Yang and Bu Ya just came to the side of the two old ladies who were playing with swinging walkers before, and the old lady who had talked with Bu Ya said to Bu Ya again with her toothless mouth : "Old grandson of the Liu family, how come I didn't lie to you? You must have been fooled by the construction team. You can tell your dad later and let him go to the construction team to settle accounts. Don't be cheap. Those black-hearted thieves."

"Well, I'll tell my dad about it when I get back, thank you."

Bu Ya smiled politely at the old lady.

"That's right, we can't suffer from this kind of dumbness."

Only then did the old lady smile contentedly, and her wrinkled face immediately became even more wrinkled.

"Okay then, let's go back first..."

Just as Bu Ya wanted to say goodbye to the old lady, he saw Zuo Yang approached the old lady at some point, grinned and said to her, "Grandma, have you always lived in this village?"

"Isn't it? I'm getting old, and my two sons and one daughter have gone to the city, and they always want to take me in to live with me, but I'm a bitch, and I don't know anyone to talk to when I get to the city. Living in that kind of high-rise building also makes it troublesome to go up and down, so why don't they send me back again?"

The old lady is a master who likes the family's gossip. Seeing someone take the initiative to talk to her, she immediately started talking nonsense, "Actually, we live in the mountains comfortably, the air is good, and we can grow some food and vegetables. There are plenty of things to eat when you are free." It’s much better for a few villagers to talk together than in the city.”

"Yes Yes Yes."

Zuo Yang nodded in agreement, and asked with a smile, "Then grandma, you must be clear about everything in this village, shall I ask you something?"

"Of course, there is nothing in this village that I don't know. Just ask whatever you want, and I'll definitely tell you all."

Hearing Zuo Yang's words, the old lady became more energetic and sat up straighter with her chest upright, which made her face radiant.

"Okay, let me ask you, has there been any funeral affairs in our village recently?"

Zuo Yang thought for a while and asked again, "Or things like the death of someone in any family, it doesn't matter."

"Why are you asking this all of a sudden?"

As soon as these words came out, the old lady's face immediately became ugly, and she looked at him defensively.

"Nothing, I'll just ask."

Zuo Yang's heart also "thumped", thinking that the old lady might know something, which is why she changed like this again.

"You are not from our village, are you just asking casually?"

The old lady still looked at him scrutinizingly.

"Uh……"

Zuo Yang was thinking about how he should answer so that he could continue to talk to the old lady, but Bu Ya had already approached him again, and said to the old lady with a smile, "Oh, Granny Zhang, he is a distant relative of our family, nothing Outsiders, if you want to know anything, just tell him, it’s fine.”

"Oh--"

After hearing this, the old lady let out an "oh", and then the defensive look on her face disappeared, and she continued to say with a smile, "So it's a relative of your old Liu's family, I thought it was someone from another village It’s not okay to come to our village to solicit funeral affairs. It’s not like you don’t know that our old Zhang’s family has always been responsible for the funeral affairs in our village. The old man has learned all the tricks, and the craftsmanship has not been lost at all, and the people in other villages are not as respectable as our old Zhang's family."

"That's not right. My grandfather said before that if he leaves one day, he will ask my dad to ask your old Zhang's family to do his funeral for him. He can trust your family."

Bu Ya also echoed from the side, but judging from the tone of his speech, it didn't seem like he was lying. This should mean that he was drunk in his sixtieth year.

"That is."

The old lady laughed happily.

"..."

Zuo Yang was speechless, and was startled for a long time. It turned out that the old lady regarded him as a competitor in their family's business, so she suddenly started to guard against him. It was enough.

"So it's my family, so I'll tell you the truth."

Then the old lady looked at Zuo Yang with a smile again, and said with a puckered mouth, "Recently, there is really nothing to do in our village, there is no way, many old people have followed their children to the city to live a good life, those people have After spending money, I forgot the original, and when I turned around, I no longer thought about the tradition of returning to the roots of fallen leaves. I just found a square in the city and set it up. The rules of the ancestors were ruined by those people. The old man of the old Liu family is the most conscientious, look at the old Liu, he is the best in the outside world, he will not forget to come back to the village when he is old, and he built such a square for our village, he is a good man."

"Has no one died?"

Zuo Yang felt that the old lady's answer was not comprehensive enough, so he asked again.

"Then we don't know, anyway, there are none in the village, who knows what happened to those who went outside, but..."

Speaking of this, the old lady suddenly thought of something again, paused before continuing, "Recently, except for one strange thing in our village, even the people in the police station were alarmed."

"what's up?"

Zuo Yang asked quickly.

"Actually, it's the old Wang's house at the west end of the village. Old Wang's wife left early, and all his sons and daughters went to work in the city. Only Lao Wangtou lived in the old house at the west end of the village. Some time ago..."

　Thank you [Xuan Ye Jue] boss for the reward of 1000 starting coins.

　　Thank you [fat man who can't lose weight] the boss's 500 starting point reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)